Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of DisciplineVirginia Burrus, Catherine Keller Fordham Univ Press, 25 aug 2009 - 408 pagina's What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfigure doctrinal tropes? Avoiding the well-worn path of sexual moralizing while also departing decisively from Anders Nygren’s influential insistence that Christian agape must have nothing to do with worldly eros, this book explores what is still largely uncharted territory in the realm of theological erotics. The ascetic, the mystical, the seductive, the ecstatic—these are the places where the divine and the erotic may be seen to converge and love and desire to commingle. |
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... given by Thucydides.19 Thucydides's original and Plato's lampoon are both marked by their close approximations (one serious and one parodic) of Gorgias's high style, a point of some importance since, for Plato, the theory of erotics and ...
... given permission, what Socrates turns to is not encomium at all, but rather a dialectical interrogation of an Agathon turned virtual Protagoras. For Leo Strauss what this means (somewhat ridiculously) is that ''when people are too tired ...
... given to him to become dear to god, and if any other among men is immortal, he is too'' (212a). Knowledge and contemplation of the beautiful leads to the perfection of desire not that one might cease to desire, but that one's erotic ...
... . ••• From a Christian perspective, the figuration of eros or desire primarily, and even solely, in terms of lack and death is inadequate. Given that humans are (among other things) erotic beings, such a construal mario costa 55.
... given through the life of the incarnate Word, a supplement to those theories of desire sketched above. As implied in this formulation, the gift of life, while overcoming death, does not ignore death. Rather, it is because of the ...
Inhoudsopgave
63 | |
PART III SACRED SUFFERING SUBLIME SEDUCTION | 167 |
PART IV COSMOS EROS CREATIVITY | 219 |
PART V REREADING THE SONG OF SONGS | 289 |
A Theology of Eros After Transfiguring Passion | 366 |
Notes | 375 |
Contributors | 465 |
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